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Perhaps fittingly, 2013 began here on Ward Gossip with my take on the historical interpretations of a certain straight white male representative from Utah who, thanks to his painstakingly thorough research, was able to recreate this otherwise unknown episode during the U.S.Constitutional Convention: Silas Baxter trudged toward home. He  was about the business of forming the constitution.   Standing for righteousness. Liberty. Freedom. The American way. She was waiting at the doorway, a cotton shawl around her shoulders. "Hi honey, how was your day?"   "Very discouraging. Mr. Franklin insists on abolishing slavery, while the delegates from the South refuse to give it up. I'm torn between the two sides." She nodded and made that little pouty face that always drove him wild. "Oh honey, you're such a softy. Feeling sorry for the poor slaves. But shouldn't your first concern be straight white men? " Turned out 2013 was a pretty darned frustrating ...

To: Abbottsville Stake From: Mitchell Knightly, president of the Abbottsville Stake Subject: Statement from the First Presidency In a surprise statement earlier this month, the First Presidency announced that church members are finally worthy enough to know their own history. Since then, some actual fact-based articles have been published on the official church website, most notably an admission that the LDS Church has a racist past, and an explanation for the varying versions of Joseph Smith's First Vision. Additionally, a church spokesman agreed to a hard-hitting interview on KBYU: Susie Wimpleton : I am speaking with T. Rulon Sneed, an official spokesman for the LDS Church. Welcome to the show, Brother Sneed. Sneed : Thank you for having me, Susan.   Wimpleton : Brother Sneed, the First Presidency recently released a statement on the official church website that disavowed its previous policy of denying African American men the priesthood. Can you explain why the Church adopted ...

Need Sanity? New business delivers at BYU The Salt Lake News - published December 6, 2013 Inspired by the popular startup, Caffeine on Campus , a group of five launched Sanity on Campus, a business that offers another commodity not typically found at the Lord's University: saneness. "We saw that there was a modest demand and absolutely no supply," Jeff Blackburn, a sophomore studying biology and part of the team behind the sanity service, told The News. "I know personally there have been days when I've just come out of a church history class, or my religion professor was explaining evolutionary theory, or someone at a ward mix and mingle claimed he was one of the Three Nephites, and I just had to have some sanity. In every case I had to walk to the nearest off-campus convenience store before I could find anything that was remotely not nuts." After two weeks, the new website, sanityoncampus, received over 5,000 hits. Nevertheless, the young entrepreneurs don...